“If you are here because you think writing will always be fun, you're in for a disappointment. Writing -- real writing --… — M. Molly Backes Copy Share Image
It's a mistake to get too narrow too fast. Kids today, many of them will live past 100, and you cant predict… — Megan Smith Copy Share Image
I had a girls' writing retreat at my condo and a bunch of other female writers came down. Me and two other… — Jamie Lynn Spears Copy Share Image
If I would get an album out every eight months and if I would write songs that were more up-tempo and try… — Chris Isaak Copy Share Image
I was never ambitious. I just wanted to have quiet, calm, listen to public radio and say, hello, how are you? Sit… — Garry Marshall Copy Share Image
You write a book and you finish the book. That's your job done, right? You win the Booker and you have a… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
Keeping your sanity is sometimes stalling the business aspect of things and being OK with saying no to certain things. Sometimes I… — Yukimi Nagano Copy Share Image
I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys.… — Kurt Sutter Copy Share Image
Writing organizes and clarifies our thoughts. Writing is how we think our way into a subject and make it our own. Writing… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
When I was about twenty-one, I published a few poems. Maybe I wrote a couple of stories before, but I really began… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
You have to live in order to have something to write about - you get caught up in moviemaking and celebrities and… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
I found that life intruding on writing was, in fact, life. And that, tempting as it may be for a writer who… — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
“Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I've always been aware that probably writing songs - stupid songs or, at least, theatrical songs - is, I dunno, I certainly… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
“From the earliest writings of the apostles, through the second and third centuries, the Church resisted military involvement and refused engagement at… — Keith Giles Copy Share Image
“Reading Proust nearly silenced Virginia Woolf. She loved his novel, but loved it rather too much. There wasn’t enough wrong with it—a… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I've never been a fearful person. When I was growing up, I wanted to be an actress, a writer, and a musician… — Krysten Ritter Copy Share Image
When I think of the things that I want to write, I can never say them out loud because I know how… — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
My commodity as a writer, whatever I'm writing about, is me. And your commodity is you. Don't alter your voice to fit… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I do believe the world is a pretty sad, troubled, and violent place. Maybe that's why I focus on the trouble. Even… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
I speak pretty fluent American, though I do so with a strong British accent, and I love America: The scale and the… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
I love to tell stories and I love to work with directors and I think I write really visually, which I think… — John Orloff Copy Share Image
I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it "intently… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
A man I know who writes and aspires to be a novelist does very little reading, and he's not that successful. But… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
I could've written songs about, for example, the Paris attacks as they happened and have the song out the day after, but… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
For a while I used to listen to those whispers about babies costing you books, and Cyril Connolly's loathsome quote that "There… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
“The writer's object should be to hold the reader's attention. I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
There should be no telephone in your writing room, certainly no TV or videogames for you to fool around with. If there’s… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I did a thing called 24 Hour Plays, a thing they do every year on Broadway. A bunch of playwrights and actors… — Scott Raab Copy Share Image
I never went out to make the music that people would like. I mean, I tried, because every teenager tries to do… — Freya Ridings Copy Share Image
“...at some point you need to stop looking out at others and start looking inward, at yourself, at your own accomplishments, at… — Scott F. Falkner Copy Share Image
“On Three Ways of Writing for Children”: When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Whether in peaceful trade or warlike attack, the sea unites more than it divides. Even if it were possible to treat England,… — Nicholas Rodger Copy Share Image
When I'm really plugged in I find it difficult to write. It's like digging a well. If you make a void, something… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
We have to diversify, we have to find work we can do that helps other people while helping ourselves, work that has… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
“The term 'role model' is so odious, but the truth is it's a very strong writer indeed who gets by without a… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I grew up performing in glee club at my school; I was the ostrich in 'Peter Pan,' and then I was super-involved… — Kelsea Ballerini Copy Share Image
Especially as an independent director, when you're writing something on spec and you're trying to get it sold, you create this entire… — Anna Boden Copy Share Image
My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have… — Debbie Macomber Copy Share Image
Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
